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7 REGISTERING BANK Filed March 30, 1928 2 Sheets-Sheet l 550. XNVENTOR Stanley L onneZ Z RNEY May 26, 1931. s. 1.. CONNELL REGISTERING BANK Filed March 30. 1928 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR 52*0/7 Zeg Patented May 26, 1931 STANLEY L. CONNELL, 0F GIRARD,

PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIG-NCB TO THE GIRARD MODEL WORKS, INC., OF GERARD, PENNSYLVANIA, 1%. CQBPOEATIQN OF PENNSYLVANIA REGISTER-ENG BANK Application filed March 30, 1928. Serial No. 265,889.

This invention relates to coin registering banks, and has special reference to the provision of coin receiving receptacles adapted to register coins deposited therein and to visibly pear,

exhibit the having different compartments for total amount of the deposited coins.

The principal objects of the present invention. include the provision of an improved coin registering mechanism for savings banks or the like, constructed and designed to register the size of coins of different denominations and to exhibit the totals of all of the coins of the different denominations deposited in the bank; the further provision of a coin registering mechanism operatingupon a coin received by a stationary chute and fixedly positioned in such chute and operated by such positioned coin for actuating a registering element such as a registering wheel; the

* still further provision of a coin registering apparatus of this character designed for use with and for selective operation by coins of different sizes or denominations, the principle or mode of operation being such as to permit the use of a simplified construction of parts effectively organized in accordance with simple laws of coordination.

A still further prime object of the invention.

relates to the provision of a savings bank a savings account and a spending account, the savings compartment being normally inaccessible, while the spending compartment being always readily accessible for containing loose change and the like.

To the accomplishment of the foregoing and such other objects as will hereinafter apmy invention consists in the elements and their relation one to the other, as are hereinafter more particularly described and sought to be defined in the claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings which show the preferred embodiment of my invention, and in which: 7

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the registering savings bank of the invention,

Fig. 2 is a view thereof taken on an enlarged scale and in cross section in the plane of the line 2-2, Fig. 1, with parts of the operating mechanism broken away,

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the operating parts of the registering mechanism of the bank,

Fig. 4 is a thereof,

Fig. 5 is a view taken in cross section in the plane of the line 55, Fig. 2,

Fig. 6 is a rear elevational view thereof with the rear wall of the casing removed.

Fig. 7 is a fragmentary view taken in cross sect-ion in the plane of the broken lines 7-7, Fig. 5, showing the operation of the registerdetail view of certain parts ing mechanism with a coin of a given denomination, and

Fig; 8 is a view taken in cross section in the plane of the lines 88, Fig. 5 showing the operation of the registering mechanism with a coin of a different denomination.

Referring now more in detail to the drawings, the registering savings bank of the invention comprises a receptacle or casing A designed preferably to simulate a cash register and a coin receiving and registering mechanism generally designated as B housed or encased by said casing A, the said casing A having a compartment C for receiving the coins deposited in and registered by the savings bank, the said casing being further provided with a separate compartment D in the form of a drawer independent of the registering mechanism B for receiving or holding loose change or coins, the compartment C thus forming a receptacle for savings and the compartment D forming an independent receptacle for spending money.

The casing or enclosure A may be made of sheet material bent and shaped to form the enclosin walls of the casing, which walls may be secured together in any desired way as by means of tongue and groove joints such as 10, 10. The top wall of said casing is provided \ith a plurality of slots 11, 12 and 13 for receiving a coin of desired denomination, such as a nickel, a dime or a quarter, respectively; and the front wall of the casin provided with the sight windows 14 an 15 for the dials of the counting train of the registering mechanism and with an elongated slit v16 forming a guide means for the operating arm 17 of the registering mecha- I is a;

nism. The front wall of the casing at its .bottom is provided with an opening 18 for the drawer'19; and the said casing is provided interiorly with a partition 20 which separates the interior into the savings'compartment C and the extra or spending compartment D. Aside wall ofthe casing A is also provided with a door or closure 21 which is normally locked and which may be opened by a key, or may be automatically opened after a given amount of money has been deposited in said bank. 7

The registering mechanism B of the invention embodies a construction or apparatus to receive and fixedly position a deposited coin and to be actuated by such fixed coin for imparting predetermined movements to the registering elements or wheels of the registering mechanism, the construction being such that the coin does not form a connecting medium-between the operating and the operated elements of the registering mechanism, and hence does not partake of the movements of such elements. In its broader aspects this registering mechanism comprises a stationary coin chute generally and collectively designated as 22 adapted to receive a coin and to hold the same in a fixed position, an

, operated element such as a registering wheel 23, an operating element 24 normally unconnected' to said registering element 23, and means suc'h'as any one of the devices 25, 26 and'27 movable into engagement with a coin deposited in the chute 22, said means being constructed and arranged so as to be actuated by its' engagement with the depositedflcoin for. causing the operating element 24 to be come operatively connected to said registerof the slots 11,12 and 13 respectivel chute, the said rollers forming a ing element 23 for driving the registering element, the amount or degree of movement thereof being determined by the size or the denomination of the deposited coin.

In the preferred construction the savings bank is-designed to receive and register coins of different denominations, as afore stated, and to this end there is provided a plurality of separate pockets or coin chutes 25a, 26m and 27a arranged to receivela coin inserted in one the coin engaging devices 25, 26 and 27 being associated respectively with said coin 25a, 26a and 27a. Each of the coin chutes is adapted to receives coin and to hold the samechutes drawings, and to intercept the coin, as most clearly shown in Figs. 2, 7 and 8 of the drawings. Thus when a coin such as 30 is inserted in a slot such as 11, 1t gravitates in the chute 25a and 1s intercepted by the roller 29 and the coin engagingdevice25 (see Fig. 2)

and is'held between these parts ready for further operation. Any coin of smaller denomination than that intended for such chute 25a will fail to be intercepted 'andgwill fall through into the deposit compartments G, and any coin lar er than such denomination Will I either be prevented from being inserted by the size of the coin receiving slot such as 11, or by the re ecting operation of the registering mechanism, as will be described hereinafter.

It will be noted that the upper roller 28 is arranged in advance of the lower roller 29, thus functioning' to prevent the returneg'ection of a coin of correct denomination.

The coin intercepting and engaging devices 25 to 27 comprise cam shapedelements forming a sin le unit and made for example out of a single blank of sheet metal shaped into the confi nr'ation best shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings; and, the said unit, designated as 31, is mounted for a limitedoscillating movement on a shaft 32 journalled in a U-shaped frame 33, which U-shaped frame is mounted for oscillating movement .on a main spindle'34; which is jou'rnalled in the side walls of the casing A- The oscillating frame '83 is provided with the operating arm 17 heretofore referred tends to the exterior of the casing A and is adapted to be manipulated for producing an oscillation of the frame 33 and the parts.

carried thereby between the positions shown in Figs. 2 and 8 of the drawings. Normally, the oscillatable. frame is held in theposition shown in Figs 1 and 2 of thedrawingsby means of a spring 35 coiled about the spindle andhaving a point of application at the pin 36 fixed to a plate portion 37 of the frame The coin intercepting unit 31 isalso normally held in the position shown in Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawings by means of a spring 9:8 which is anchored at 39 to the U-shaped frame 33, and which has a-point of application at and on apin 4O fixed to one of the coin engaging devices such as 27, this construction being best shown in Figs. 3 and 8 of the drawings. i

The operating element 24'heretofore ferred to preferably comprises a pawl element madepreferably integrally with one of the coin engaging devices .such as 25, the said pawl element 24' being normally out of engagement with and being adapted to be connected to a ratchet element 41 which is fixed to the registering element or wheel 23. The ratchet element 41 and its attached wheel 23. are held against accidental movement by means of astop and positioning pawl 42 mounted for pivotal movement on asecond to, which arm ex-.

spindle 43 ournalled in the side walls of the casing A, the said pawl 42 being spring-held against the teeth of the ratchet wheel 41 by means of an extension 35a of the spring 35 having a part coiled about the spindle 43,

all as most clearly shown in Figs. 3, 7, and 8 of the drawings.

With the construction thus far described, it will be seen that after a coin such as 30 is deposited into a chute such as 25a and 1s intercepted by the roller 29 and the coin engaging device 25, the parts are in position for an operation of the registering mechanism. lVith the parts thus positioned, a depressing movement of the operating arm 17 causes the frame 33 to rotate on the spindle 34, and as a result of this movement of the frame 33, the coin engaging element 25 thereon performs in sequence three functions, first, the fixed positioning of the coin 30 in its chute, second, the causing of the engagement between the operating pawl 24 and the operated ratchet 41, and third, the release of the coin from the chute after the registering element or wheel 23 has been moved the predetermined amount permitting the coin to drop or gravitate into the deposit compartment C. These functions are efiected both qualitatively and quantitatively by the cam shape or configuration of the coin engaging device (25, 28 or 27) and by the positioning of the rollers 28 and 29 in the corresponding chute 25a, 26a orn27a. The fixed positioning of the coin is accomplished during the initial or first part of the movement of the operating arm 1?, such movement causing the coin engaging device, as for example 25, to force the coin 30 against the rollers 28 and 29, the advance spacing of the roller 28 preventing the ejection of a coinof proper dimension from the chute. Continued movement of the op erating arm 17 causes the cam-shaped device 25 to ride over the edge of the thus positioued coin, and said device 25 is actuated by its riding engagement over the coin (against the action of the spring 38) for producing the operative connection between the pawl 24 and the ratchet wheel 41 and for.

driving said ratchet wheel 41 a distance predetermined by the configuration of the cam face of said cam shaped coin engaging device 25. At a given point in the movement of the operating arm 17, the coin engaging device 25 terminates its travel over the edge of the coin and the coin is then released and is free to move into the compartment C. As the ratchetwheel 41 is moved by the pawl 24, the holding pawl 42 is forced out of its holding position. The holding pawl 42, also functions as a positioning pawl and to this end the number of teeth on the ratchet wheel 41 is made equal to or a simple multiple of the dial designations on the registering wheel 23.

This sequence of operations is shown in Figs 2, 7 and 8 of the drawings in connection with coins of different sizes or denomin ations, and a comparison of these figures as well as the sequence of operations shown thereby demonstrates the manner in which the degree of movement of the registering element such as the wheel. 23 is predetermined and made to correspond with the size of the coin operated upon. By reference to these figures it will be seen that the coin engaging 1 Trent" 2S and 2? are giwn fierent cam realign ions, these devices being designed to produce different degrees of coin riding movements for the different sized coins. Thus, the device 25 will cause an operation of the registering wheel 41 to move the same an arc corresponding to a change from one designation to the next, while the coin engaging devices 2 and 2}" will cause movements of said registering wheel 41 over arcs twice and five times the length ofsaid first mentioned are. In Fig. 2 of the drawings is shown the initial engagetbetween J 5 in". chute 25a, and in 7 of the drawings is shown the engagement of the device 26 over a coin deposited in the chute 26a, while in Fig. 8 shown completion or end of the travelof the device 27 over a coin deposited the chute 27a, the coin in said chute 27a snown just prior to its release from said chute.

By means of this construction I am enabled to consic rabiy simplify the number of elements and the law of operation of a registering bank of t i dev the character described. It will he noted that use construction permits the use of stationary chutes or pockets and the med positioning of: the coins, thus eliminating the needfor complicated mechanisms which operate upon the principle of coin movement. It will further be seen that a single operating pawl coordinated with a single ratchet wheel may be employed with the deposit of a coin of any of a large number of sizes, and a single unit such as 31 may he used in conjunction with all of the di r ent sized coins. The registeri mechanism therefore embodies a small number or a minimum of parts which may be made in few operations at a comparatively low cost.

[he operated registering wheels may he made of any approved or well known design; and in the exempliiication of the invention shown in the W s, such registering wheels comprise an ad ing train formed of a plurality of d I registering cents and the latter totaling dollars, the wheel 23 being operated di rectly by the ratchet wheel 41. attached there to and the wheel 23a being operated by the wheel 23 at each revolution of the latter. The means for actuating the wheel 23a by the wheel 23 may comprise any well known mechanism such as a star wheel and pinion rotatable on the spindle 43, said star wheel and 23: 5, the 510?? er 1 gear teeth e6 01 the-wheel 23a and the toothed,

pinion cooperating with the gear teeth 46 which may be struck out from the body of the wheel 23a, and with a toothed element 4? struck out from the body of the wheel 23 a given point therein. The said wheel 23 is.

also grooved at its periphery as-at a8 and provided with a recess 49, at the toothed sec tion 47, these parts cooperating with the star wheel form a Geneva gearmechanism. lVhen the wheel 23 arrives at aposition such as shown inFig. 4 of the drawings,the toothed section 47 thereofengages a half tooth of the pinion 45 and moves said pinion a part of the lG'VOilltlOn suiiicient to cause the engagement between a full tooth thereof with section 01" the wheel 23, continued movements of the wheel 23 thereby causing a movement of the wheel 2364 through the desired arc. i

The use and operation of the registering bank of the present invention and the many advantages thereof will, in the main, be fully apparent from the above detailed description and modifications may be made in the strucbination, a registure disclosed without departing from the spirit of the invention, defined in the followa ing claims.

I claim:

1. In a coin registering mechanism, in com-, bination, a registeringelement, a stationary coin chute adapted to receive a coin and to hold the same in fixed position, anoperating element normally disconnected from "said registering element, and means movable into engagement with and in riding contact over a coin manually deposited directly in said chute, said means being arranged so as to be actuated by its engagement with said coin vfor cansiin said operatingelement :to become operatively connected to said registering element, andsaid means havin a predetermined length of riding'contact with said coinfor predetermining the degree of movement of said registering element.

2. In a coin registerin mechanism, in comering element, a stationary coin chute adapted to receive a coin and to hold the same in fixed position, a coin receptacle for receiving the coin when released from said chute, an operating element nor-V mallydisconnected from said registering element, a device positioned to intercept a coin deposited in said chute and movable into engagement with and in riding contact over said coin, said device being arranged soas to be actuated by its engagement with said coin for, causing said operating element to become operatively connected to said registering elenient and means for-movin said device in riding contact ,over'said coin, said coin being and movable into engagement with a coin de-- )osited. in said chute said 0 eratin element being a ranged so as to beactuated during its engagement with said coin into operating connection with said registering element, and

means for moving said operating element.

4. In a coin registering'mechanism, in comationary coin chutes adapted to selectively receive coins of different denominations and to hold a received coin in a given and fixed position, an operating element normally dis connected from said iegistering element, and means movable into engagementiwith a coin depositedin one of said chutes, said means being arranged to be actuated by its engagement with said coin for causing said operating element to become operativelyconnected to said registering element, the length of moving engagement between'said means and each coin of different denomination being commensurately arranged to determine the extent of the operative connection between the opera-ting element and the registering element, and hence the degree of movement of said registering element. 7

5. In a coin registering mechanism, in combination, a registering element, a plurality of stationary coin chutes adapted to selectively receivecoins of different denominations and to hold a received coin in a fixedposition depending upon the denomination, an

operating element normally cisconnected from said registering element, and means having a plurality of devices spaced to correspond to' said positions and movable into engagement with a coin deposited in a corresponding one of said chutes, each of said devicesbeing arranged to be actuated'by its engagement with said coin for causing said operating element to become operatively connected to said registering element, the length of moving engagement between a device and a coin being arranged to determine the extent of the operative connection between said 0 eratin element and said re 'isterin element, and hence the degree of movement of said reg1stering element.

on, a registering element, a plurality of 6. In a coin registering mechanism, in combination, a registering element, a plurality of stationary coin chutes adapted to selectively receive coins of different denominations and including a plurality of pockets each for holding a received coin of a given denomination in fixed position, an opera. g element normally disconnected from said registering element, and means having a plurality of devices spaced to correspond to the said pockets and movable into engagement with a coin deposited in a corresponding one of said chutes. each of said devices being arranged to be actuated by its engagement with said coin for r causing said operating element to become operatively connected to said registering element, the length of moving engagement between a device and a coin being arranged to determine the extent of the operative con- 3 nection between said operating element and said registering element, and hence the degree of movement of sa l registering element, the length of such mo ving engagement with the coins being differen for the coins of different denominations.

7. In a coin registering mechanism, in combination, a registering element, a stationary coin chute adapted to receive a coin and to hold the same in fixed position, an operating element normally unconnected to said registering element, a device connected to said operating element, projecting into said chute and positioned to intercept a coin deposited therein, means for moving said device into riding engagement over said coin, the movement of said device against and over said coin causing first the fixed positioning of a coin in the chute and then an actuation of said device by the fixed coin to effectan operative connection between said operating ele ment and said registering element.

8. In a coin registering mechanism, in combination, a. registering element, a stationary coin chute adapted to receive a coin and to hold the same in fixed position, an operating element normally unconnected to said registering element, a device connected to said operating element projecting into said chute and positioned to intercept a coin deposited therein, means for moving said device into riding engagement over said coin, the movement of said device against and over said coin causing first the fixed positioning of a coin in the chute and then an actuation of said device by the fixed coin to effect an operaframe oscillation of said" framein the res- 7 ence of a coin in said chute causing riding engagement between said device and said coin and actuation of said device by said coin for effecting an operative connection between said operating element and said registering element.

10. Ina coin registering mechanism, in combination, a registering element, a stationary coin chute adapted to receive a coin and to hold the same in fixed position, an 0scillatable frame, a coin intercepting and engag ing cam device movably mounted on said frame, an operating element connected to said cam device and normally unconnected to said registering element, and means for oscillating said frame, the said cam device having cam shaped sections such that oscillation of said frame in the presence of a coin in said chute causes riding engagement between said device and said coin to fix the position of the coin in the chute and then an actuation of said device by said coin to effect a driving connection between said operating element and said registering element.

11; In a coin registering mechanism, in combination, a registering element, a stationary coin chute adapted to receive a coin and to hold the same in fixed position, an oscillatable frame, a coin intercepting and engaging cam device movably mounted on said frame, an operating element connected to said device and normally unconnected to said registering element, and means for oscillating said frame, the said cam device being shaped so that oscillation of said frame in the presence of a coin in said chute causes first an actuation of said device by said coin effecting a driving connection between said operating element and said registering element, and then a release of the coin from said chute and a resulting release of said driving connection. 7 i

In a coin registering mechanism, in combination, a registering wheel, a ratchet wheel for driving the registering wheel, a stationary coin chute for receiving and holding a coin in fixed position, an operating pawl normally unconnected to said driving ratchet, a cam-shaped coin intercepting and engaging device connected to said pawl, and means for moving said device into engagement with and in riding engagement over a coin in said chute, the said device being mounted so that the engagement thereof with a coin in the chute actuates the said device to cause a continuous operative connection between said pawl and ratchet so long as said device is in engagement with the coin.

13. In a coin registering mechanism, in

combination, a registering Wheel, a ratchet Wheel for drivlng the registering 'Wheel, a stationary coin chute for receiving and holding a coin in fixed position, an operating pawl normally unconnected to said driving ratchet, an oscillatable frame, a cam-shaped coin intercepting and engaging device connected to said pawl and movably mounted on said frame, and means for oscillatlng said frame,

oscillation of said frame causing amovement of said device into engagement With and in riding engagement over a coin in said chute,

c. the engagement of said device With a coin in ity of stationary coin chutes adapted to selectively receive coins of different denominations and to hold a received coin in a given and fixed position, an oscillatable frame, a plurality of coinintercepting and engaging devices mounted as a unit on said frame for 'lnnited motion thereon, each of said devlces being associated With-one of saidchutes, an operating element connected to said devices and normally unconnected to said registering element, and means for oscillating said frame, oscillation of said frame in the presence of a coin in one of said chutes causing an actuation of a device by-said coin effecting a driving connectionvbetween said operating element and said registering element, the length of moving engagement between adevice and a coin being arranged to determine the eX- tent of the operative connection between the operating element and the registering element l 15. 1 In a coin registering mechanism, in combination, aregisterin'g element, a driving ratchet therefor, a plurality of stationary coin chutes adapted to selectively receive coins of different denominations and tohold V a received coin in a given and fixed position, an oscillatable frame, a plurality of coin intercepting and e engaging cam devices mounted as a unit on said frame for limited motion thereon, each o f'said devices being associated With one of said chutes, an ope'rating pawl element connected to'said devices and normally unconnected to said driving ratchet, and means for oscillating said frame,

oscillation of saidframe in the presence of a coin in'one ofsaid chutes causing an actuation of acam device by said coin effecting adriving connection between. said pawl and ratchet, the length of moving engagement between a cam deviceand a coin being arranged to determine the extent or length of the operative connection betweenthe pawl I and ratchet.

Signed at Girard, in the county of Erie and A.]D. 192s.

STANLEY L. CONNELL.

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